Joking: No Laughing Matter

16mm, color, sound, 17 min
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"A psuedo-scientific study of why we laugh, a colorful, far-fetched history of laughter and a tongue-in-check examination of a wide variety of actual jokes. This parody was inspired by Sigmund Freud's ...
Rental format: 16mm

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"A psuedo-scientific study of why we laugh, a colorful, far-fetched history of laughter and a tongue-in-check examination of a wide variety of actual jokes. This parody was inspired by Sigmund Freud's work on joking and is replete with disgrams, laboratory experiments and 'documentary footage.' Animation, pixillation and live-action camera techniques are employed. In the end, the film asks the question: Have we, in this modern technoilogical worldm lost the ability to laughh?"

Films

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